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I Know Your Loneliness
By Helen Ries I can see the little picture poking out from under your pillow. It is dog-eared and crumpled but the smiling faces of our mother and father still […]
Read MorePartnering to Spread RDSP Awareness
On September 1st, 2016, Plan Institute, Disability Alliance of BC (DABC), and the British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society (BCANDS), with support from the Vancouver Foundation, launched a new 4-year project partnership called Access […]
Read MoreQualified Disability Trusts
By Halldor K. Bjarnason & Hiva Parandian The new rules around Qualified Disability Trusts may affect the estate planning of those who have used trusts in their wills to leave […]
Read MoreIt’s Good to be Lost
Posted by Al Etmanski on March 2, 2017 One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do was to not make any decisions. Not because I didn’t want to […]
Read MoreWorking with the Korean Community
By Bosang Lee, Executive Director of Here and Now Community Society I first discovered the book Safe and Secure: Seven Steps on the Path to a Good Life for People […]
Read MoreTen Innovations that have Shaped the World of Disability
By Al Etmanski In previous posts I have highlighted that social innovation is not an incremental change to the status quo but a substantive, disruptive one. Social innovations improve our […]
Read MoreWhat a meeting between a PM and a Prez can teach you about advancing your agenda
By Al Etmanski Especially when you are meeting for the first time with people who are distracted by their own priorities and indifferent to yours. Whose worldview appears different than […]
Read MoreAccess RDSP Partnership
Since September 2016, DABC, Plan Institute and the BC Aboriginal Network on Disability Society (BCANDS) have been helping clients to access the Disability Tax Credit (DTC) and the Registered Disability […]
Read MoreAdvocate with Empathy
Impact Ability Part 6 with Donna Thomson – Recap Justice for people with disabilities and their families is not something we can achieve on our own. We must bring a […]
Read MoreThe Splendour and Isolation of Martin Luther King Jr.
I remember the shock of seeing Martin Luther King Jr’s tomb for the first time. I had just emerged from the King Center on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta not too far from where he …
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